Bear hunting
09-27-2018, 07:09 PM
#3
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: WI&UP
Posts: 751
As with a bait, if legal for you, honeyburn bacon burn, anise, fryer oil.
My concern about doing burns and then hunting, may already be watching. If you leave it burn while in stand, could start fire.
mid day dump your bait/scent. Leave come back. Bears will also come in morning. Actually all day. But like deer more likely dawn and dusk, and after hours,
My concern about doing burns and then hunting, may already be watching. If you leave it burn while in stand, could start fire.
mid day dump your bait/scent. Leave come back. Bears will also come in morning. Actually all day. But like deer more likely dawn and dusk, and after hours,
09-27-2018, 07:10 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 2,742
yes it can, as a bear follows its nose to find food, so if something smells good and the area the smell is coming from the bear deems to be safe to go to in day time, sure WHY not
bears eat pretty much any time there not sleeping or running!, whole lives revolve around eating and finding more food
well all but maybe for mating season when there looking for something else! and food is lower on the list!
bears eat pretty much any time there not sleeping or running!, whole lives revolve around eating and finding more food
well all but maybe for mating season when there looking for something else! and food is lower on the list!
09-27-2018, 07:14 PM
#7
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 8
Scent
I wouldn’t think that scent would be considered bait, I will have to call a game warden the book i don’t think is clear on this. Looks like it’s talking about feed, salt, grains
Last edited by Bearbow45; 09-27-2018 at 07:19 PM.
09-28-2018, 04:27 AM
#9
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,230
09-28-2018, 05:04 AM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 2,742
NOW as for would beat in heat scent work come Fall,
as MY guess is most likely NO
there in food mode with winter closing in and all, there not that interested in love, but never know, all the more so if your way down south, where seasons might drag on longer, I have seen bear mate here in PA as late as end of August, but come Oct, I get males and females at same time pretty often and they could care less about each other, just want to eat!
I've had 15 different bears here this yr, , I average 20, so a little off for the yr so far, but crops didn;t get harvested yet, so once they do, I get more here do to I have food yet(plots and fruit tree's))
I personally think your WAY better hunting food source's over using JUST a scent of anyuthing, when baiting is NOT allowed or desired way to hunt bears, it will be your highest odd's
go to some farms and ask the farmers if they have bear damage, if they do, odds are WAY higher they will let you hunt, as a bear can cost them a lot of money in crop damage, a couple bears in a small area can be very hard on a farmer, thius increasing your odds of access to hunt them!
this time of yr, CORN is the main draw for bears!, easy to eat till there full can even eat laying down for hours, all you can eat like deal for them , with cover too boot!, finding where there eating is easy too, they will level corn and eat it laying down and look like a section was rolled over on! and they can do a 1/4 acre or so in a short period of time!